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Thank You to Luanne Pontbriant and Jacquie Lober for helping to sort, write cards and package all the knit and crochet donations to the various shelters and programs we have adopted. We delivered to Help of Ojai, Project Understanding, Ojai Valley Family Shelter, Casa Serena and several shelters in Alaska and Canada.

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We had the most wonderful Day last Saturday June 13th for World Wide Knit in Public Day at BookEnds Bookstore in Meiners Oaks, Ojai California. Proud to be one of the almost 900 groups in 56 different countries participating this year. This is our first year in Ojai, but the tenth for WWKIPDay. We had 60 women come together, from 8 years old to 88 years old……sharing, laughing, helping each other, teaching each other……fully embodying the official slogan of

“Better Living Through Stitching Together”

Here we are teaching each other……

Helping……

Sharing……Everybody brought yummy food, desserts and refreshments…..

Raffle Table……

……benefiting “Knitting in Recovery – One Stitch at a Time”

It’s 4pm……and no one wants to leave……people kept coming and coming……

……so we decided to start a Knitting Group here and meet every other Thursday!

Thank You so much to Celeste (right) and Marsha, owners of BookEnds Bookstore, for being such gracious hosts. It was the most perfect spot to have this event……and we are so glad to be a part of your wonderful place!

……become a beautiful blanket consisting of knitted and crocheted CareSquares in different kinds of yarn and in an array of colors and textures. All the squares are crocheted together and finished with a beautiful crocheted trim around the whole blanket enveloping the warmth of all the squares.

There is a lot of love in each of these squares, along with the courage it takes for these women to conquer something new, the peace and healing that follows when they fall into a rhythm with their hands and their hearts. The joy and laughter and shared stories that arise when we sit in this room together for this one single hour. All this transcends into the square, and then connecting them all together… all the different women, all the different yarns, all the different colors, all the different textures……into one…..blanket.

Little Handmade Prayers all bundled up together for someone to lay under and feel safe and warm.♥